I have a question regarding the use (or the "make usable again") of hard disks locked with ATA password: I have a Samsung disk (2.5" with PATA interface) and approx. 160 GB capacity which is locked by some ATA password which nobody knows.
What tool is to be used in FreeBSD to transmit the password to the unit in order to "wake it up"? The disk is recognized by the system properly, but no "da" device will be created, instead error messages are printed (as it is to be expected for a locked drive). With some fiddling (didn't document it, sorry) I finally got a /dev/da0 device, but could not obtain any further information (like via "fdisk da0"). On Linux, there's hdparm (with options like --security-unlock), but what is the FreeBSD for that? For comparison: http://linux.die.net/man/8/hdparm Basically, I don't want to read what's on the disk, I'm just not accepting to throw precious 160 GB away for nothing. So if there is a tool to simply remove the password and maybe destroy all data on the disk, it will be fine. And: Yes, I've already read about "cracking" the password by using respective "evil" tools, like, dealing with error codes, password hashes, hex dumps of specific "hardware sectors", but it looks like too much work to just get those 160 GB. But I did learn a lot. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
